Country Toffee Pudding

This simple pudding’is interesting because it comes from a recipe book belonging to a housekeeper to the Gresham family who built Osterley Park in 1577, in what was then the county of Middlesex. It is clearly a favourite nursery pudding, probably originally made upstairs by nanny for a treat, but it has been enriched with extra butter and whipped cream. A small amount is delicious.